How many of you have come home one day to discover the furniture’s been moved around in your home? How did you partner do that, anyway? Isn’t that bookcase heavy? Your partner may not have hired a moving company or recruited some extra muscle from the local gym to get everything moved. There are ingenious little tricks to moving heavy items, including cushioned discs that slide your heavy items across all kinds of flooring. On an industrial scale, though, companies have to employ different ways of moving their often-heavy equipment and goods.
Put It on Wheels
Businesses put their heavy items on wheels as a reliable way to move them. Think about some of the tight spaces in which you’ve seen something heavy operated. Massive copiers sit in teacher’s lounges. Weighty equipment rests in your doctor’s office. A mechanic’s toolbox contains lots of substantial tools. All three of these have one thing in common: they all sit upon shock absorbing casters to make their movement easier. These handy little wheels not only offer motion, but turning capability and brakes, too. The well-made ones also don’t make distracting or abrasive noise.
Open Spaces
A visit to your local warehouse store to stock up on paper goods might have you glancing towards the ceiling, wondering how they stack things that high and how they get them down again. Even in the aisles there, operators can use forklifts to move those bulky items up and down as needed. Forklifts come in all sizes for operation in various environments including your warehouse store, construction sites and loading docks. Forklifts require special training to operate. Drivers need to be aware of their forklift’s limitations.
You may not move anything as big as an industrial copier or a flat of chocolate syrup, but at least now you know how it’s done.
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